Data Scientist

Requirements

• You are a recent graduate, looking for your first full time Data Science opportunity
• Code-savvy, either by having a degree in computer science and/or having developed some apps with actual users- writing scripts for models and notebooks is not enough at Shift, we thrive on people who can write maintainable, production-quality code that will run everyday without breaking
• AI-savvy, either by having a degree in machine learning and/or statistics. Having a clear understanding of statistics and machine learning problems, tasks and common resolutions is important to communicate internally and explain to the client how the product is working
• Client facing. You will need to be comfortable and open to communicating to our clients on a regular basis
• Business smart. We don’t expect candidates to know the insurance sector, but we want applicants who are interested in learning and mastering the business aspects of our products
• Advanced command of French, both written and spoken, equivalent to a native speaker

What the job involves

• As a Data Scientist you will work on a broad range of subjects actively contributing to the design and evolution of our suite of products focused on fraud detection, anti-money laundering, and claims automation
• We are dedicated to providing innovative solutions, and you'll be part of a team with extensive technical and professional expertise in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding, and client interactions
• Additionally, we tackle a diverse array of data types, including structured data, unstructured text, documents, and images
• This opportunity is perfect for you if you're seeking a permanent role; Shift is the ideal place to kickstart your career journey!
• As a member of the data science team, and working alongside our technical experts, your role will be key to improve and roll-out our Fraud Detection solution
• This role is part of our Data Science team which is the largest team in our organization consisting of over 200+ Data Scientists throughout the world
• Our Data Scientists work in a full lifecycle role and on a broad range of subjects acquiring extensive technical and professional experience in data science, data engineering, coding, business understanding and client engagement
• Your role will be to actively contribute to the Insurance roadmap and clients, and working on various data types such as structured data, free text, documents and images
• Implementation of the data engineering, usually from client extracts to the insertion of the data in our data stores (SQL, ElasticSearch)
• Developing, testing, tuning models and putting them in production for tasks such as fraud detection and automation detection in complex environments
• Automate key business tasks by implementing them in our production process framework in C#
• Conduct meetings with clients and interact with external stakeholders, whether it is for direct user feedback, presenting business cases or defining the roadmap of evolutions